Wednesday, May 2, 2012
2-minute presentation
Hello, good afternoon everyone! Today, I am going to present my research proposal with the title 'the relationship between extroversion and criminal tendency'.
For your background information, some researchers such as Eysenck had found that the relationship between extroversion and criminal tendency to be significant but some had not. So, in order to test it, I hypothesize that personality can influence our criminal behavior via conditioning. For example, extroverted people are less likely to associate bad behavior with punishment through conditioning process. So, in my research, I predict that extroverted people will associate negative words with themselves more quickly and more accurately compared to introverted people.
How would I measure Extroversion and Criminal Tendency? First of all, I will measure extroversion by using Eysenck's Personality Questionnaire-Revised. Next, I will adopt Implicit Association Task to measure criminal tendency of the participants. The examples of Implicit Association Task are like this: first person narrative will pair with positive or negative word such as I-donate and We-Rob. Second or third person narrative will pair with positive or negative word such as You-Sincere and They-Steal.
Finally, I will use Pearson correlation to see if the relationship between them is significant or not.That's all, thank you!
P.S. is it possible to explain all of these in two minutes? I don't think people can understand this if they have not looked through my research proposal. Scary, but I will try my best tomorrow! :)
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Gender differences
I don't really understand why I need to study the difference between genders in Psychology. However, I find it is an interesting topic to be discussed together with friends during tea time.
People are being oversensitive with the term 'sex'. When we all come across with the term 'sex', what we will first think of will usually be sexual intercourse, intimate relationship with opposite-sex, beware of using condom and make some precautions before having sex. I apologise if I am being a bit 'open-minded' when talking about this topic.
Indeed, I did learn about functional and physiological differences between men and women in the lectures. Even in the lecture of 'sleep', the lecturer told us: during the Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep, male will have erection and female will secrete vaginal fluid. I felt ashamed and I could feel my face was a bit flushed when the lecturer gave a lecture regarding 'orgasm' and 'foreplay'. Fortunately, this only occupied one lecture slot, not the rest of my second semester. I felt uneased when the lecturer told us: when I am giving you this kind of lecture, you will definitely inhibit your brain from imagining those kind of pictures.' I wanted to say: Oh gosh, I would appreciate if you ended this lecture earlier, though I liked your lecturer's way of delivering lecture very much.
I think most of you have heard of men are being more masculinised while women are more feminine. Boys like to play with cars and girls like to play with dolls. Psychologists are still searching for the best explanation for this 'biological predisposition' on play preference. Is this due to the environmental effect? Because boys are more socially acceptable of playing with cars but not dolls. Or is this difference due to the testosterone level? Boys like to play with cars because they are biologically predisposed?
Evidence showed that men are better in visual skills whereas women are better in verbal tasks. Most of us know that left hemisphere of the brain is responsible for verbal ability. On the other hand, right hemisphere of the brain is responsible for spatial ability. If lateralisation of the brain is important in explaining this sex difference, then women who are left-handed will have more advanced spatial ability and men who are left-handed will perform better on spatial ability than those who are right-handed. However, finding supported the former but not the latter argument. left-handed women perform well on visual tasks but not men. In contrast, they perform worse than the right-handed men.
I was surprised when being told about this: when people have higher sex hormones, they will feel better and have good mood. For women, the level of estrogen, a female hormone, is high during luteal phase but low during premenstrual phase in menstrual cycle. Since sex hormones can affect our mood, now, we can understand why women are acting more aggressively and having a bad mood before they have period, more commonly, being known as premenstrual syndrome (PMS). This also happens in men. However, since men do not have menstruation, they do not have what we call PMS but mood swings.
Do you think that sex hormone affects your performance or your mood? Evidence showed that women had better motor performance when their estradiol (estrogen) level was high. Is sex hormone a direct or indirect influence on our performance? No one can give you a definite answer yet. There are far too many studies being carried out and a variety of evidences has been found. Some argue that sex hormone is a determinant factor while some disagree with this claim.
Interesting or not? This is just a small part of what I have to study in a module. If I give this answer to my lecturer in the final exam, he will definitely ...
People are being oversensitive with the term 'sex'. When we all come across with the term 'sex', what we will first think of will usually be sexual intercourse, intimate relationship with opposite-sex, beware of using condom and make some precautions before having sex. I apologise if I am being a bit 'open-minded' when talking about this topic.
Indeed, I did learn about functional and physiological differences between men and women in the lectures. Even in the lecture of 'sleep', the lecturer told us: during the Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep, male will have erection and female will secrete vaginal fluid. I felt ashamed and I could feel my face was a bit flushed when the lecturer gave a lecture regarding 'orgasm' and 'foreplay'. Fortunately, this only occupied one lecture slot, not the rest of my second semester. I felt uneased when the lecturer told us: when I am giving you this kind of lecture, you will definitely inhibit your brain from imagining those kind of pictures.' I wanted to say: Oh gosh, I would appreciate if you ended this lecture earlier, though I liked your lecturer's way of delivering lecture very much.
I think most of you have heard of men are being more masculinised while women are more feminine. Boys like to play with cars and girls like to play with dolls. Psychologists are still searching for the best explanation for this 'biological predisposition' on play preference. Is this due to the environmental effect? Because boys are more socially acceptable of playing with cars but not dolls. Or is this difference due to the testosterone level? Boys like to play with cars because they are biologically predisposed?
Evidence showed that men are better in visual skills whereas women are better in verbal tasks. Most of us know that left hemisphere of the brain is responsible for verbal ability. On the other hand, right hemisphere of the brain is responsible for spatial ability. If lateralisation of the brain is important in explaining this sex difference, then women who are left-handed will have more advanced spatial ability and men who are left-handed will perform better on spatial ability than those who are right-handed. However, finding supported the former but not the latter argument. left-handed women perform well on visual tasks but not men. In contrast, they perform worse than the right-handed men.
I was surprised when being told about this: when people have higher sex hormones, they will feel better and have good mood. For women, the level of estrogen, a female hormone, is high during luteal phase but low during premenstrual phase in menstrual cycle. Since sex hormones can affect our mood, now, we can understand why women are acting more aggressively and having a bad mood before they have period, more commonly, being known as premenstrual syndrome (PMS). This also happens in men. However, since men do not have menstruation, they do not have what we call PMS but mood swings.
Do you think that sex hormone affects your performance or your mood? Evidence showed that women had better motor performance when their estradiol (estrogen) level was high. Is sex hormone a direct or indirect influence on our performance? No one can give you a definite answer yet. There are far too many studies being carried out and a variety of evidences has been found. Some argue that sex hormone is a determinant factor while some disagree with this claim.
Interesting or not? This is just a small part of what I have to study in a module. If I give this answer to my lecturer in the final exam, he will definitely ...
Sunday, February 26, 2012
变质
我变了，变成另外一个人，变得不再像我，变得害怕自己了. 要说我是一个好人，也只是伪装得完美而已，从前的我或许会委屈自己来换取他人的喜悦，如今，我却会不择手段地去伤害他人以让自己赢得最终的胜利. 可怕， 我也这么觉得，在我还没有完全变得失去愧疚的人之前，我想写这一篇部落格来警惕自己:你离天堂越来越远了.
报应，一想到这两个字，我就开始毛骨悚然.这么自私的我，真的很怕遭天谴.为什么我会变成一个失去分寸的人?当一切事物没绕着你建筑好的轨道前进，你就失去了平衡感而乱了阵脚吗?成天往外跑，不肯回家，家，对我来说，已经变成了失去自由与私隐的鸟笼，回去，只会让我窒息至死.
这么恶劣的天气已经持续了好几个月，人消瘦，气色变差，皮肤也一样.从前对我来说很重要的时间，学业，皮肤与独处，如今如泡沫般烟消云散.
报应，一想到这两个字，我就开始毛骨悚然.这么自私的我，真的很怕遭天谴.为什么我会变成一个失去分寸的人?当一切事物没绕着你建筑好的轨道前进，你就失去了平衡感而乱了阵脚吗?成天往外跑，不肯回家，家，对我来说，已经变成了失去自由与私隐的鸟笼，回去，只会让我窒息至死.
这么恶劣的天气已经持续了好几个月，人消瘦，气色变差，皮肤也一样.从前对我来说很重要的时间，学业，皮肤与独处，如今如泡沫般烟消云散.
Sunday, February 19, 2012
好久不见
很多朋友最近都为我担心， 害怕我一个人在外国孤单又不快乐，害怕我在学业上碰到瓶颈，害怕我会做傻事，害怕我的作息不好， 害怕我睡眠不足，害怕我吃得寒酸. 没法子，碰到挫折，所谓的挫折也不过只是觉得自己在学业上其实也没自己想象中那么理想，导致我崩溃大哭了好几次，而且好像还患上了忧郁症和恐惧症.
说自己抑郁其实就是成天提不起精神来，无精打采，连身边的人都觉得我有时候也只是强颜欢笑， 我就是这么不专业，不懂得掩饰自己的心情，害身边的人都过着不安稳且紧张的生活中.
说自己患上恐惧症其实就是当我看到一个人，我就会联想到考试和温习，搞得自己成天都想逃避那个人的视线，尝试避开那个人，去认识新朋友，以忘却心中的不安全感. 是认识了新朋友，生活也没从前那么平淡，但一旦有机会让我有独处的世时机，我又会莫名奇妙地哭一场.
这个星期见了好多朋友，聊天谈心的都有，真的很想永远都这么快乐，把烦恼暂且抛开，松弛一下，我非常庆幸自己主动邀约朋友逛街或是吃饭的，而不再像从前一样被动或怨天尤人，老跟自己哭诉为什么我的朋友都不找我，其实，是我不肯放下身段去成为主动的人. 如此而已.
今天独自一个人走在公园里，听起来挺寂寞对不对?但我很开心，不是因为我已经开始享受一个人走在街上的感觉，而是遇见一对西班牙情侣叫我帮他们合照. 哈，是不是很白痴，连这么小的事情我都会开心.可能我是神经的吧，快送我去清山!
说自己抑郁其实就是成天提不起精神来，无精打采，连身边的人都觉得我有时候也只是强颜欢笑， 我就是这么不专业，不懂得掩饰自己的心情，害身边的人都过着不安稳且紧张的生活中.
说自己患上恐惧症其实就是当我看到一个人，我就会联想到考试和温习，搞得自己成天都想逃避那个人的视线，尝试避开那个人，去认识新朋友，以忘却心中的不安全感. 是认识了新朋友，生活也没从前那么平淡，但一旦有机会让我有独处的世时机，我又会莫名奇妙地哭一场.
这个星期见了好多朋友，聊天谈心的都有，真的很想永远都这么快乐，把烦恼暂且抛开，松弛一下，我非常庆幸自己主动邀约朋友逛街或是吃饭的，而不再像从前一样被动或怨天尤人，老跟自己哭诉为什么我的朋友都不找我，其实，是我不肯放下身段去成为主动的人. 如此而已.
今天独自一个人走在公园里，听起来挺寂寞对不对?但我很开心，不是因为我已经开始享受一个人走在街上的感觉，而是遇见一对西班牙情侣叫我帮他们合照. 哈，是不是很白痴，连这么小的事情我都会开心.可能我是神经的吧，快送我去清山!
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